This Week's Acquisitions
- Bram Stoker and Valdimar Asmundsson, Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula, trans. Hans Corneel de Roos (Overlook, 2017). The Icelandic translation of Dracula, which was really a complete Icelandic rewrite of Dracula, now re-translated into English. (Despite the subtitle, it was not actually all that lost.) (Lift Bridge)
- Rohan Wilson, To Name Those Lost (Europa, 2017). In nineteenth-century Australia, a man goes hunting for his son while trying to avoid an enemy on his tail. (Lift Bridge)
- Catherine Delafield, Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (Routledge, 2015). Effects of serialization on the novel form, constructions of authorship, etc. (Amazon)
- Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald, National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Ashgate, 2011). Studies role of periodical press in developing various attitudes to national communities via religion, economics, gender, age, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- William Brooker, Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture (Continuum, 2004). Alice pretty much everywhere since its inception. (Amazon [secondhand])